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On Wednesday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton charged that Republicans are waging a "full-scale war against the poor" because of GOP efforts to reform the food stamp program, and went on to assert that "This party will stop at nothing to tear down the poor. Just as they have time and time again." With the words "The Hunger Shames" in the background, the MSNBC host began the show: Tonight's lead, the "hunger shames." The GOP has been called scary, narrow-minded, out of touch. And yet again today they lived up to their reputation. Fresh off of voting to roll...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fire investigators said was suspicious gutted the New York office of civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton on Wednesday, a day after he officially entered the Democratic Party race for president. Sharpton, 48, was not in the Harlem headquarters of his National Action Network advocacy group at the time of the fire, which started at 8:30 a.m. EST and lasted about an hour, officials said. Earlier, officials said there was no reason to believe the fire had been deliberately set, but investigators who asked not to be identified later said it was suspicious. They said...